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Lady Gaga was raped when she was 19 by a man 20 years her senior, she told Howard Stern yesterday. "I went through some horrific things that I'm able to laugh [at] now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy and emotional therapy to heal over the years," she said, according to the Guardian. "But ... I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. ... I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?'" She didn't give many details, but after she mentioned that her song "Swine" is about rape, Stern asked, "Were you raped by a record producer? Was that what happened to you? I feel that happened to you."

He added, "It's a serious topic," then went on: "When you talk about depression and pain, and you're talking about rape, and you're talking about producers who have done things to you, and you said you barely got into a studio where you weren't in a weird, dangerous situation. I feel like you were raped by someone. I think that's what you're saying." That's when she acknowledged the "horrific" things she's gone through. She explained that she went to Catholic school and was "very naive." Added Stern, "And then you want to be a singer, and you're starry-eyed, and you're like, 'I just wanna sing, I love singing.' And some guy swooped in and took advantage of that." Replied Gaga, "Well, you know, it happens every day." (See Lady Gaga's latest "incognito" getup.)

It seems that these days you cannot be a celebrity unless you are a victim of child abuse or rape OR you have a substance abuse problem. Do you have to have a dysfunctional childhood/life to be rich and famous? I ask this as I look at the top of the Newser page with three out of the five stories involve "celebrities" either going to prison or that should be going to prison...I'm looking at you Bill Cosby!

Arthur Machado

Dec 4, 2014 11:43 AM CST

And she never called the cops, and even now she won't say who this felon was, yep I believe that. Maybe it was Bill Cosby. I am sure if there had been a way for her to blame it on him she would have. Jeez would you believe someone who took 20 years to report a robbery. Listen ladies, if you are raped tell the cops when it happens or you will not be believed. That is what the cops are there for.

plain_speaking

Dec 4, 2014 7:51 AM CST

If you read some of the comments below...mocking and insulting and minimizing and ignorant..an intelligent person can't help feeling we have lost our way as a culture....